This sci-fi novel has the classic SK stamp – small town, huge cast of characters, evil all around, people dying and…surviving.
PLOT IN SHORT
It is the story of the small town of Chester’s Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.
The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late . .
THE GOOD
– The antagonist is one of the scariest, meanest bad boy produced by SKs pen. Big Jim Rennie is scary because he is believable. There are probably politicians like him or worse than him out there right this moment slowly destroying the world with their greed.
– Good cast of supporting characters
– Fast paced
– a bunch of very well written scenes
THE BAD
– The cause of the dome and how it is resolved let me down
– The antagonist’s end was not satisfying. He could have suffered more
– After stories of even the lead characters aren’t told
– The book is long
MY THOUGHTS
I personally enjoy this set up seen is other SK books like – The Tommyknockers, The Regulators, The Stand etc as well. However I did not enjoy the cause and the ultimate resolution of the dome at all especially after ploughing through a thousand pages. It was a anti climax. This one is only for the die hard constant readers or lovers of sci-fi.others can skip the book and watch the TV series based on this book instead.
MY RATINGS
3.8/5
The Bombay Bibliophile 
That’s the problem when you are reading something long, there’s more anti-climax. When I read The Selected Works of T S Spivet, I was disappointed by the ending. I absolutely loved the book, but it just ends abruptly, without explaining and resolving all (or almost any of) the issues raised in the story. It was a shame, because the rest of it was so thoroughly detailed.
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I hate sad endings
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Me too. I love happy endings! It’s just that all through the middle of the book, he’s asking all these questions that never get answered. I feel like it’s unfair of the writer to just not answer them.
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I tried watching the tv series, but I found it lacking in humour.
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I didn’t like the TV series at all
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Me neither 🙂
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